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Internet Explorer 8 now passing Acid2

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:46:02 GMT

The IE8 team just announced some new news about IE8 - they just passed a major milestone which is to have IE8 render Acid2 when in IE8 standards mode. Includes link to official post and video.

ASP.NET MVC (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Passing data from Controller to View

Microsoft Live Labs - Volta

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:01:03 GMT

The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

Visual Studio 2008 RTM available for download

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:46:03 GMT

MSDN subscribers can now download final RTM version of Visual Studio 2008.

ASP.Net MVC Framework Part 1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie provides some great insight into the upcoming ASP.Net MVC framework.

Dispose Pattern and Object Lifetime

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:43:35 GMT

The Base Class Library Team at Microsoft provides a great overview of the dispose pattern and object lifetime in the CLR, with links to other interesting object lifetime articles at the bottom.

Bob Martin JAOO 2007 Interview

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:23:29 GMT

Bob Martin on the need for beautiful code.

ASP.NET MVC Framework - ScottGu's Blog

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Framework described by ScottGu.

VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:16:02 GMT

JavaScript debugging in Visual Studio 2008

Google Analytics Reports for DotNetKicks.com

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:16:02 GMT

Interested in seeing some google analytics stats for DotNetKicks.com?

.Net Documentor - Productivity Features for VS2005 code documentation

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:19:16 GMT

.Net Documentor is a Visual Studio 2005 Extension that adds productivity features to the IDE's source code documentation fecilities, e.g.: - recursive documentation of all elements in a project (with optional insertion of task shortcuts) - recursive documentation of a type and its members - automatic application of custom text snippets to properties, events and constructors - reuse of base type's documentations

Creating a CSS layout from scratch

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:36:33 GMT

This tutorial assumes you have a basic knowledge of how to use CSS, but only have a very basic understanding of how it works. If you have NEVER used CSS before, you will want to start with the w3schools introduction to CSS.

Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now! (Online emulator)

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:01:02 GMT

A simply and useful tutorial to play with ruby Online =) Just click the link and begin to program in RUBY

Design Patterns: Thoughts on the Singleton Pattern

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:16:02 GMT

Thoughts on the Singleton Pattern (Executive summary: Don't!)

Object-oriented database programming with db4o

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:31:02 GMT

db4o at The Code Project. Very interesting discussion between the author and Carl Rosenberger (db4o's architect) can be found in the message board.

Improve Your Blog's Reach With These 20 Essential Web Utilities

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:16:01 GMT

Here's a great roundup of web tools to improve and promote your blog. Great tools to help with: Optimization, Statistics and Search Engine Optimization, Images, Content, and Syndication.

Java and .NET generics

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:31:01 GMT

Compare the implementation of generics in .NET and Java

Is DotNetKicks smart enough?

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:16:01 GMT

Ok. I am just cheking the smartness of dotnetkicks.

Final Version of C /CLI Documentor to be released tomorrow

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:32:28 GMT

The final version of C++/CLI Documentor is to be released tomorrow, March 2nd 2007.

.NET Reflector 5.0

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

Lutz Roeder shipped new version of .NET Reflector.

Reflector 5.0

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:46:01 GMT

So there is a new version of Reflector out. There are some new features of Reflector that you should know about...

Cool WPF Note taker application

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:46:01 GMT

This is a cool WPF created application for note taking. No more sticky notes

Bitsharp - BitTorrent library

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:16:01 GMT

BitSharp is the product of Googles Summer of Code 2006. It is a complete BitTorrent suite of libraries which can be embedded in an application. The suite contains: 1. Client Library - Allows the uploading/downloading of torrents. 2. Tracker Library - Allows the hosting of .torrents. 3. Torrent Creator - Allows the creation and editing of .torrent files. All of these libraries were written with Mono in mind. As a result these libraries will function on any operating system that supports either the Microsoft .NET Framework or Mono Framework, be it Windows, Linux, MacOs or other.

MSDN Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:01:01 GMT

Some guidelines for .NET Framework designs